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"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
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"Good music is very close to primitive language."
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"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
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"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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